Why This Must Be Read: Amy gets (accidentally but knowingly) pregnant immediately beforeher wedding, instead of immediately after, and deals with it about as well as you'd expect: with a little humor, a little terror, and still an outrageous amount of running.

Why This Must Be Read: Rory and especially Amy lived through a heck of a lot in s5—and canon too often appears to take the Doctor at his word that everything is (or will be) fine. This fic examines how Amy does—and doesn't—deal with everything she's lost and found in the short course of her life, and the author pulls off a neat trick of not letting Amy's faith in her Raggedy Man waver, even when it should.

Why This Must Be Read: In this simple, bittersweet coda to "The Angels Take Manhattan," the Girl Who Waited and the Lone Centurion adjust to being a (mostly) normal couple in midcentury New York. There's not a lot to tell here, for an audience used to racing through time and space, but these little glimpses give you everything you need to know.